Volatile Recycling at the Crust-Mantle Interface: Evidence From Halogens and Noble Gases in Deep-Crustal Fluids.

Grant number: DP0879451 | Funding period: 2008 - 2013

Completed

Abstract

1) The technique proposed for this study is of proven interest to the mineral exploration industry. This project will: i) increase knowledge of the deep-crustal fluids often implicated in giant hydrothermal ore deposits; and ii) develop laser ablation, which will increase the techniques applicability to Australia's oldest ore deposits. These outcomes will further benefit the mineral exploration industry. 2) The experimental data can be applied to testing the long-term storage of CO2 by geo-sequestration. 3) The proposed research is extremely topical and will be presented at international conferences and in high impact journals raising the profile of Australian science.

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Halogen ratios (Br/Cl and I/Cl) and concentrations provide important information about how sedimentary formation waters acquire th..

High abundances of noble gas and chlorine delivered to the mantle by serpentinite subduction

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The Earth's mantle contains non-radiogenic noble gas isotopes that imply transfer of noble gases from the atmosphere into the mant..

The origin and evolution of mineralizing fluids in a sediment-hosted orogenic-gold deposit, Ballarat East, Southeastern Australia

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The hydrothermal fluids responsible for gold mineralization at the Ballarat East gold deposit (the second largest orogenic gold de..

The noble gas systematics of late-orogenic H2O-CO2 fluids, Mt Isa, Australia

MA Kendrick, M Honda, NHS Oliver, D Phillips

2011-03-15

The noble gases (He, Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe) are powerful geochemical tracers because they have distinctive isotopic compositions in th..

New constraints on the release of noble gases during in vacuo crushing and application to scapolite Br-Cl-I and 40Ar/39Ar age determinations

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2009-10-01

The release of irradiation-produced noble gas isotopes (38Ar<inf>Cl</inf>, 80Kr<inf>Br</inf>, 128..

Discussion of 'the Paleozoic metamorphic history of the Central Orogenic Belt of China from 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of eclogite garnet fluid inclusions by Qiu Hua-Ning and Wijbrans J.R.'

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The in vacuo crushing procedure employed by Qiu and Wijbrans (2008) is identical to that of Qiu and Wijbrans (2006) and has produc..

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